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The veteran soldier is the proud recipient of a lifetime certificate for services to the local branch and has showed no signs of hanging up his collection tin yet.

He said: "I'm going to keep on selling poppies while I've still got the energy to do it.

"I'm lucky because I get to sit inside the entrance of Wilkos in the warm.

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A World War Two veteran could be Britain's oldest poppy seller at 101

I’m lucky because I get to sit inside the entrance of Wilkos in the warm

Walter ‘Wally’ Randall

"I don't know whether I'm the oldest poppy seller or not. It all came about when someone put me on Facebook and said, 'no, here's the oldest one'."

He added: "My favourite thing about selling poppies is people's generosity. When someone puts money in but says 'I've already got a poppy', it's very gratifying."

Mr Randall lived in Wing until he was three years old when his father, Daniel Randall, 23, a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, died in the First World War on November 10, 1918 - a day before the end of the war.

His family then moved to Leighton Buzzard to live with his grandparents.

Speaking of his war record Wally said: "In 1942 I was kitted out to go to the Far East but then Singapore fell to the Japanese. I was then sent to North Africa and the Nazis drove us back into Egypt.

"I befriended an old World War One veteran while we were in Cairo and on our two days off we visited Alexandria and climbed the pyramids.

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He served in the service corps during the last war

"I was a motor mechanic and was sent to the front line when we started pushing enemy troops back at El Alamein.

"I was with a platoon of ten lorries that took the Fourth Indian Division up to the front line - mine was a breakdown lorry."

He was serving in Italy when the war ended in 1945, briefly returning home before his unit went to Vienna and he was demobbed in 1946.

Abandoned WWII hanger & bunker uncovered

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An abandoned Navy base that played a vital role in World War Two, is now a forgotten relic. The complex in Tillamook Bay, Oregon, was built by the US Navy in 1942 and provided the country with blimp squadrons that would patrol the Pacific in the fight against Japan.

An abandoned train on the flat farm land where hanger A used to be, before the fire

Mr Randall returned home to his wife Margaret, whom he had married in 1940 in Leighton Buzzard. They had a son, Nicholas, in 1947.

He worked at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton until retiring at the age of 64.

His wife sadly passed away six years ago after battling dementia.

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The dedicated poppy seller can be found in his local Wilko store

Nicholas Randall, 69, said: "We are all so proud of him, he was just marvellous when he looked after my mother all on his own, he had a little help but he nursed her at home by himself, she never had to go to a home.

"I think that was the most marvelous thing he has done, he did it all in his 90s.

"He is still fit as a fiddle, he is on no medication at all, I'm on more than he is."

Derek Mitchell, Leighton Buzzard Royal British Legion Club Secretary, said: "Wally had his 100th birthday party last year and was first to say, 'well, when are we going to get on with the dancing then?'

"He just keeps active, and doesn't smoke or drink to excess. He recently stopped cycling but before then I had to tell him to wear a helmet. He flies about like a man half his age."

The dedicated poppy seller can be found in his local Wilko store on the High Street from around 11.30am-1pm and 3pm-4pm between Mondays and Saturdays.